Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden change of plans, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai this week postponed a scheduled visit to Nepal and cut short his tour of India to rush back to Peking. Probable explanation: before his trip to Moscow next week Chou had to catch up on an unexpected shift in the Chinese Communist line...
...record of seven successful bowl games was going on the line against Pitt's hungry Panthers, but Bobby Dodd, professionally casual coach of Georgia Tech's unbeaten Yellow Jackets, saw no reason to get steamed up about his trip to Jacksonville for the 'Gator Bowl game last week. As usual, he let his boys horse around in practice; as usual, he promised them that all they had to do to win was play for the breaks and trust in Dodd...
...expenses and allows him to sell stories to other publications. He has also worked as a free-lance correspondent for CBS, which in August 1955 carried his short-wave radio newscast from Moscow, the first permitted a U.S. newsman since 1947. Worthy tried to persuade CBS to underwrite his trip to China, but the network, wary of stirring up trouble in Washington, refused. However, CBS said it will continue to pick up Worthy's broadcasts, pay him when he returns; he is due back Jan. 20 to resume studying on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard...
...Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport the day before Christmas, a bundled-up Negro stepped off a night plane from Tokyo, drove to Kowloon railroad station and boarded a train for the 22-mile trip to Lo Wu on the China border. There, in defiance of the State Department's refusal to give U.S. newsmen passports to Red China (TIME, Sept. 3), William Worthy Jr., 36, special correspondent for Baltimore's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, crossed the border, became the first American reporter to enter China in seven years...
...Boston and thirty-seven mice stage a mass escape from the psycho labs beneath Mem Hall. Presley receives his draft notice and mass suicides follow. Russia gives Cecil B. DeMille rights to produce a film about the October revolution on location. Hemingway and Faulkner go on a fishing trip in the West Indies, come back with a new book entitled, "Beards, Booze, and Old Time Religion." Report sighting strange figure on raft, nude to waist, brandishing harpoon...